the family or internet activist our schwartz accuses u.s. prosecutors of being complicit in his suicide after they face decades behind bars for downloading academic documents for public use. now a no suggestions just under a metre nervous law in belfast and he's thanks to both sides in the weeks old slant conflict as they struggle to explain what they demand is actually. our friends gave the surest says its military operation against the man islamists will be short and warnings the country risks being bogged down and into conflict for fun longer than planned.

this is r.c. coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and overreach this is how the family of the celebrated internet freedom activist r. and schwartz have described his recent sort of side shorts faced decades in prison after federal prosecutors allege he illegally downloaded millions of academic papers and plan to distribute the votes free r.t. has three quickly interviewed shorts and our own marine operation i now takes a closer look at the man and his case. he was a computer prodigy an online optimist co-founder of the social news website read it and he was also a frequent guest on our team but twenty six year old aaron swartz was also the

target of a federal computer hacking case and the trial was scheduled to begin next month that beginning will never come because swartz committed suicide inside his seventh floor brooklyn apartment in this building behind me on friday morning according to police he hanged himself and left no no behind and according to reports his girlfriend fountain in the bedroom with a belt wrapped around his neck now swartz was arrested and indicted two years ago on allegations of breaching a computer network at the massachusetts institute of technology to download millions of pages of academic articles and other documents swartz pled not guilty to the charges which carried a sentence of up to thirty five years in prison and a one million dollar fine in the aftermath of the suicide swartz's family released a statement blaming the prosecution the federal prosecution for driving the twenty

six year old to take his own life they said in part quote aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy it is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach decisions made by officials in the massachusetts u.s. attorney's office and at mit contributed to his death unquote many of sports his colleagues have been quoted remembering him as a genius kid brilliant and funny now at thirteen years old he designed his first web site at the age of fourteen he helped write the are a says a program that alerts users to new blog posts warts also founded demand progress in internet group that campaigns against web censorship in this. ultimately led to many people considering him something of an on line robin hood but his supporters his friends his family members believe that it was him being targeted by the federal government that caused this brilliant twenty six year old to take his own

life reporting from new york marina port ny on r.t. . short triggered an avalanche of tributes online from leading internet and like minded accidents and a german and a pirate party fabia ryan holland believes the potential punishment was facing for his activity was way too much it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fines for just are not into music from the internet was quoting pirates on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j. store. where the pirates came from said they wanted to put the parts on the internet anyway and was just did a good job doing it i think the system with this case whenever it comes to internet freedom whenever it comes to copyright infringement then all the senators all the people in the house of representatives in the united states the same side there is

no differences. there same side as hollywood does they are actually fighting for hollywood making the last of them so what's scaring a very heavy legacy that would be difficult to give political steps but there are a lot of people that fight for the same goal it's that we're try to go into what's what he was fighting for and i think there's a political movement that is fighting for free internet it's the strong and good will get stronger and there is no risk that there's a very heavy loss for the entire community will bring a stop to the political movement. there's a shaky common belfast one dozens of police officers were injured in the latest spate of sectarian violence over the weekend then west in the northern irish capital began when the catholic dominated local council voted to tail the flying of the british flag of the city hall the mood was fiercely opposed by protestants. reports now there's no end in sight to the violence that would go on both sides of

the conflict well it's certainly been a turbulent time for northern. the decision was taken to limit the number of days of the union flag would fly here at city hall sparking. out onto the streets the weekends always start today with the work they like writing that has taken place. we have more than twenty. that we can move. into. much much further reaching the. business. in this area we've been talking to people from all sides of the debate to find out what exactly should be done. the riot sparked by the like this week showing no signs of abating at the weekend loyalists

returning from the protest that won't pass the nationalist area both sides clashing police think a bunch of attacks from loyalist rioters many in the nationalist community tensely watched. what are. the angry young loyalists of. there to a worrying sign to those who remember the reality of past troubles. young people why are they coming out and reacting in this way. the fragile culture. of a public. willing to accept.

we have. everything. you have is in the rice a roll of the sea what's happening right now is damaging northern ireland's image around the world can be done to stop this happening right now what would these people response to politicians need if the people on the street. when do you think this is going to start i don't think it's going to stop at. the top of the still some calm in the form of a peace rally held on sunday and here have watched on into will de mint some in what's been taking place they've been dubbed the embarrassed all silent majority. the sort of embarrassment george silent majority represents. is quite embarrassing here but actually countries you see in these protests test

you see this you know think of belfast we think. maybe you can say their shuffle of good things happening that's where. the race is now on to come up with a solution to calm the situation before it gets any more and every riot every rock throwing chipping away at the heart full for peace. go. ahead for you this song. pushing weapons and had a well with a parliamentary election a zero approaching people question the government's priorities as the country splashes the cash posting and not a large scale ballgame but ignores demands for economic change. and germany is said to persuade the greek opposition that austerity is what athens needs as some say berlin is making approaches towards what it believes will be the future leader of the troubled euro zone member.

france says the u.s. and britain are providing support for its military intervention in mali french troops have been fighting in the african nation since friday to help the government regain the north from rebels but political writer barry lund believes western nations are dealing with the fallout of their campaign in another african nation libya and the current operation in mali will be a long one. it's also part of you know francis tradition has its colonial past its great paskin again. in west africa and also in asia and the french are still not forgotten and i think that's very much part of it and also of course there's economic interest there you're talking about a country just north of the mallee which is twice the size of france how do you track down these rebels these different groups who know these areas how do you deal was up with a few hundred troops away as well so it's

a potentially huge involvement a very long task what happened was after could afy fell a lot of so-called mercenaries who had been paid to fight for him and who had a lot of very happy arms and took off and came south and some of them originally from northern mali decided it was now time to establish their claim which they wanted to do for a long time to having their own homeland in northern mali with the wiring so. they were better then joined by radical more radical islamic groups and apparently we have now been tossed out and it's really the radical islamic groups that run things and john i think just a couple of minutes well back with more news for you. the world. science technology innovation and tall buildings developments from

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opposition rally in moscow causes marched in the sun told the cops or sunday protesting against their act our correspondent was that hard. the protesters are demanding that the e.u. the authorities abolish the law passed recently which bans americans from adopting russian children now this burn is part of the russian lawmakers response to the money to be act passed recently in the united states which gives the green light for sanctioning russian officials suspected there in the states of violating human rights are the reason why russian lawmakers chose to ballot mickens from adopting russian children is due to the meaning pieces of lobby usually sometimes even deaths of russian kids after they were adopted and brought to the united states in fact the whole issue of the option has been quite a problem between russia and the united states for several years now and officials in moscow say it's not only the cases of abuse themselves but also the lack of

a proper legal reaction from american offshore east including the lack of heavy jail sentences which could have prevented these cases from happening again so authorities say that banning americans from adopting russian kids is actually aimed at protecting them and it's fair to say that they do have quite a large number of supporters in society in the washout. the russian girl in her blog online wrote a personal letter to president putin for signs the bill in the end i didn't mean to change his mind to abolish the slaughter she explained it by saying that in many cases the orphans which are being adopted by americans and many foreigners but americans in this case they are disabled and they are simply not able to receive the proper medical attention here in russia and we both already heard from the president's press secretary the need to be supportive to said that i was going to

push and will review this walk post even though it's not an official request but also right before the end of last year a lot of ferocious newspapers managed to gather around one hundred thousand signatures now protesting this law and under the deep creek off of the president the parliament also thanks to review this protest is also needed to point out back to due to the current agreement between moscow and washington on adoption all those people who have already been able to find the children who are going to be adopted and brought to the united states they're going to be able to finalize this process so these kids who are already sort of approved to be adopted the will be able to go to the united states all the way until two thousand and fourteen. and of course you have nor pictures and videos from the latest opposition rally held in russia so i had to r.t. dot com for a closer look at and most stories waiting for you there right now including saying

i don't find a new collection of clubs designed to highlight the wearer from drones and other means of protection it's a demand they hold in london so i had to r.t. dot com to read on montague big brother's watch for life. and also not just cheering crowds for the pope's prayer that says members of the notorious ukraine planning group stage and naked protest are right in the heart of the vatican online a go to the details a water park they woman's discontent this time. it is.

is going to be a battle over austerity when they german finance minister meets the greek opposition leader who's been holding the phone against the berlin bank to stare as he strategery looks it's a process expected to demand international lenders change the terms of the international bailout for greece and political economist yanis the roof says there's also a particular reason. why germany's interested in this meeting what mr la was in a position from which is like a little oxygen and the fog of much harder to work relationship once he became president of the french republic similarly because the person may well be in government but after the next election in the future. me. mode of communication not in order to work. that you do as well but we. should look about that i wrong or we're thinking what i would be some good look at

me communication. and some other international news and briefly this hour on antigovernment protesters in bahrain have reportedly clashed with police at the funeral of an accident as to who died after being overcome by tear gas it follows that series of demonstrations urging the current government to step down their pricing in the gulf monarchies started an early twenty's never knows the shia majority began its push for greater political freedoms and rights. thousands of activists have begun their march on the pakistani capital out of their leader voiced his discontent with the current political system islamabad has tightened security and wants demonstrators of possible terrorist attacks some politicians claim the march was initiated by that state's military to disrupt the pulls ahead of the general election in the spring the cleric who sparked the movement says the government should deploy drastic reforms and break up the corrupt regime. nigerian military forces claim to have captured

a key figure from the islam a group boko haram mohammad as edwina was reportedly called him the country's northeast and the city believed to be the heart of the insurgent group the government is trying to as there is in this group which is responsible for thousands of deaths during a time some civilians. major crimes committed in different parts of the world including africa and the way they are handled by the international criminal court are the topical cross-talk debate and later today people about his guess clash over whether the i.c.c. is as impartial and impartial as it meant to be and here's a look at what's ahead. i see to you why. only the sobs have been indicted and convicted and where are. our nato allies largely when either not being indicted or how we don't know are they really

in there which is where the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what it indicates is simply that the prosecutor failed to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt at the i.c.c. we have already seen the same thing happening where gadhafi was indicted arrest warrants issued there's been no investigation into the crimes committed by gaddafi is adversary there's been no investigation into the murder in captivity of gaddafi and there's been no investigation of the war crimes committed by nato. israel is increasingly under fire for its settlement plan with the nations the wave

of international criticism spawned by the false will if the action of the palestinian proceeds can dozens of to sacramento activists were detained after police raided the site despite an early a court order preventing the government from such action and we talked to a palestinian man who took part in the nonviolent protests and he believes that coming is really election is the reason behind become option. when you have five hundred more than five hundred fully armed israeli soldiers. raiding villages with the forces of an armed does that by itself is violence but even within the process of action many activists many of those that suffered brutal beatings for no reason they did not even resist. the less well they suffered due to the beatings we had at least six or seven of those residents are activists

treated in the hospital and a lot of them are hostile to see doctors for severe problems that they suffered from the beating it's a political issue for the. the going ahead with their settlement plan. to connect violent means sentiment to do so and they don't want anything with the legal or illegal to disturb the settlement expansion. and there's a lectures are coming up senator mel has to take it off the stand tough position on on this particular case meanwhile israel has hosted all it's been called the largest as a multinational effort exercise was more than one hundred fighter planes taking part to combat training came just a couple of months after another large scale military trial conducted jointly with the u.s. and with a parliamentary election in the country just around the corner a growing number of the terrain is

a questioning such huge expanse of war games. playing. israel in the united states are sharing military drills bigger than any they've done in the past thousands of troops and millions of dollars but with social grievances that still need to be addressed and a prime minister looking for votes ahead of early january elections israelis are asking themselves yet again if netanyahu has his priorities straight. he's a couple to list and under his term as we saw in the last few years of the cleavage between poor and rich we go the big elephant in the room is the defense budget israeli military spending was not supposed to grow more than one and a half percent a year but those figures have more than doubled in the last three years alone and now after an eight day war with hamas in gaza the defense establishment is pushing for even more money netanyahu chances of a victory come january are high and television homeless are preparing themselves for more of the same joys of bench moment arrived at this tent city with nothing

more than the clothes on his back and a tank of gasoline threatening to set himself on fire you know what i want what is owed to me by the state nothing more nothing less i sold my country as a soldier and i will stay here to the end i do not fear death i saw it in the army many times but is this what i deserve. his tears echo the pain and abandonment people here feel the government has no time for us there is money there is a lot of money to help people like us netanyahu couldn't care less he will win again i know this will be the same it's a disgrace the prime minister netanyahu has formed committees to deal with the demands of anti austerity protesters but they complain he hasn't taken a single concrete step to address their concerns. i think we need to invest more in social issues housing and cost of groceries and keep the security budget in

proportion of. the security of society it's more important not less important than the security. officer but the voice on the street is drowned out by the rumble of weaponry and tell of obsession in showcasing its military prowess policy r.t. television. more news for you in thirty minutes and i'll report on big city life or not so big people is here after the break. download the official applications to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television and well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t.

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